Hey, Brits! Are you or aren't you metric?
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Pints of beer. And not your shitty American pints. Proper pints - 20 oz.
People still talk about pints of milk, but they're not sold that way.
The roads are completely imperial - distances are in miles, speeds are mph.
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Pints of beer. And not your shitty American pints. Proper pints - 20 oz.
People still talk about pints of milk, but they're not sold that way.
The roads are completely imperial - distances are in miles, speeds are mph.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Hey, Brits! Are you or aren't you metric?:
Pints of beer. And not your shitty American pints. Proper pints - 20 oz.
People still talk about pints of milk, but they're not sold that way.
The roads are completely imperial - distances are in miles, speeds are mph.
Fascinating.
So, when people mock the US for not being metric, I can include you, eh?
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Nobody wants to mock the Brits. We're enormously loved throughout the world for our quirkiness.
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Working with mechanical engineers in Canada was very confusing - they talked about measurements being in 'mils', by which they meant thousands of an inch.
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